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How will China PR play under new Icelandic coach Sigurdur Ragnar Eyjolfsson and his assistant, Chinese great Sun Wen when they face the Westfield Matildas?

That’s the question ahead of two big friendlies against Alen Stajcic’s Australians in Victoria this week.

The Chinese Football Association (CFA) made the change last week, replacing Frenchman Bruno Bini (though keeping him on in a technical role).

At the back end of a mammoth year in which they’ll play around 20 games, the Chinese have turned to a manager who had been coaching in China this year with Jiangsu Suning’s female side, and found success with his native Iceland earlier in his career.

Previously, Sigurdur, 44, had been the manager of the Iceland national women's team from 2007 to 2013, where he was quite successful on the European Championship scene.

Iceland qualified for the European Championship for the first time in 2009 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament in 2013.

The CFA said that Sun Wen, former national women's team captain and one of the world’s greatest players of the 1990s era, will be Sigurdur's assistant.